Adding an editable text item

Another common type of subview is an item that allows the user to enter and edit text.

Add an editable-text item to the window.
Enter the following text in the Listener, and press Return.

(add-subviews (target)
              (make-instance 
                'editable-text-dialog-item
                :view-size #@(160 16)
                :view-nick-name 'visitor))

Now if you select the window, you can edit text in the newly added subview.

When we created the editable-text dialog item, we specified a view-nick-name for it. This allows us to locate the view later, if we want to perform some operation on it.

Set the font of the editable-text item.
Enter the following text in the Listener, and press Return.
```
(set-view-font (view-named 'visitor (target))
               "New York")
```
Now when you type in the editable-text item, the typing will be displayed in the font "New York", rather than the default "Chicago" font.

Gettmg Started with MCL - 19 OCT 1996

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